external auth
Phil Dibowitz
phil at usc.edu
Thu Aug 12 19:35:07 CEST 2004
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 01:12:19PM -0400, Sean Dilda wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 03:37, Phil Dibowitz wrote:
> > Has anyone brought up the possibility of obtaining user/group info externally?
>
> This already works for users, but not groups. At Duke we have something
> called webauth. Its an apache module that logs you in using your campus
> account, then sets the appropriate variables in apache. I configured
> apache to use this for nagios, then configured nagios's cgi configs
> using people's campus account names, and it just worked. Unfortunately,
> this doesn't answer your group question.
Yes, I currently use pubcookie to gaurd nagios and it accepts that user... but
as with hostgroups, more often than not it's significantly more effecient to
use groups... ;)
--
Phil Dibowitz
Systems Architect and Administrator
Enterprise Infrastructure / ISD / USC
UCC 174 - 213-821-5427
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